In MODX Revolution before 2.5.7, an attacker might be able to trigger XSS by injecting a payload into the HTTP Host header of a request. This is exploitable only in conjunction with other issues such as Cache Poisoning.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-18010 MODX Revolution XSS via HTTP Host header
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-p2j4-vrgx-96qg MODX Revolution XSS via HTTP Host header
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T04:20:42.722Z

Reserved: 2017-05-18T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2017-9071

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-05-18T16:29:00.283

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-9071

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